Example sentences of "as he [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Vicar was reluctant to accept as he knew nothing of this , but Mr Baker insisted he should accept as was his right . |
| 2 | He looked too big for the room as he seated himself in one of the armchairs . |
| 3 | ‘ You 're getting my postcards , are n't you ? ’ he asked as he kissed her on both cheeks . |
| 4 | As he said himself of this time , ‘ I yearned to live a semi-bohemian lifestyle , an unstructured life ; but a consecrated one ; some kind of calling . ’ |
| 5 | Aware only of the bumping of her heart and the pressuring of his mouth on hers even as he carried her through interminable pathways to the journey 's end , Sarella felt him lower her at last on to his bed . |
| 6 | When a woman entered the room T J H Laurence , as he signed himself in typical British stiff-upper-lip fashion , would immediately stand up , his old-fashioned courtesy drawing amused glances from classmates . |
| 7 | As he adapted himself to this reputation , Deems indeed grew subtle in his affairs , until man and reputation became one . |
| 8 | He flicked the white silk bow undone , his fingers running through it , inciting shivers of heat to flood her skin as he studied her through those hooded lids , and deliberately stroked one long finger down the nape of her neck and lowered his blue eyes to watch her nipples erect in fierce , unwanted response . |
| 9 | As he put it to one of his regional officials : " If Joan of Arc had married and had children , she would not have been Joan of Arc any more . " |
| 10 | He was fascinated by those deepest drives which were as he put it in 1919 ‘ canalizations of something … simple , terrible and unknown ’ . |
| 11 | As he put it in subsequent letters to Eisenhower , since an American nuclear attack would automatically place France in grave danger of a retaliatory Russian attack , France had an absolute right to participate in any decision about such an attack . |
| 12 | Like many of those discussed in this book , Foucault endorses the ethico-political project of establishing forms of knowledge that do not simply turn the other into the same : as he put it in 1968 , he wishes to find another politics than that which ‘ since the beginning of the nineteenth century , stubbornly persists in seeing in the immense domain of practice only the epiphany of a triumphant reason , or in deciphering in it only the historico-transcendental destination of the West ’ . |
| 13 | had given , in the course of his judgment , a summary of the law governing the procedure for requiring a specimen of blood or urine under what is now section 7(4) , as he derived it from previous decisions , in the following passage : |
| 14 | Suragai 's hands were already scratched and bleeding , and he was cursing quietly in his own tongue as he positioned himself for another rescue attempt . |
| 15 | His breathing gradually slowed as he propped himself against one edge of the desk , drinking . |
| 16 | Helen and Edward now met frequently on the Common , and she visited her father 's grave with him as he tended it with wild flowers . |
| 17 | The Brigadier seemed to be thinking furiously as he helped himself to another glass of port . |
| 18 | He left the sentence hanging as he helped himself to more rum . |
| 19 | Judge Anthony Hart described 28-year-old George Scott , who denied punching and kicking the male and female officers , as an ‘ arrogant thug ’ as he sentenced him to two years in prison . |
| 20 | Christine fought for her balance as he grasped her with hooked fingers . |